Dam you got a heavey system. xmms shouldn't be eating up to much resouces..
Try downsampleing it (lower quaility), see if that helps any..
also you might want to try mpg123, it is pretty quick.
Maybe xmms isn't the program that is bogging down the system, it could be just
the "straw that broke the camels back". Do you use this as a
server/workstation? Try using the `top` command use 'P' to show what is eating
cpu, and use 'M' to show what is eating memory...
Also you might want to goto xmms home page and see if there is anything in the
FAQ about it.
Jack
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, 1stFlight ! wrote:
> OOpss.. meant to include that....I'm running an AMDK6-2 400 w/ 128MB of
> ram... RedHat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.12 64MB of swap...
>
> Darryl
>
> Jack Barnett wrote:
>
> > There should be a way to decrease the buffering (main memory) it uses. The
> > less it uses, the more it will break up, but there will be more memory for
> > other programs... How much CPU and memory do you have working for ya?
> >
> > Also mpg123, which runs on the command line, is really fast. I use it alot,
> > it is supose to be have some part tweaked out in x86 ASM..
> >
> > Jack
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: 1stFlight ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 10:29 AM
> > Subject: XMMS=CPU sucking beast --Help!
> >
> > > Is there a way of running XMMS without it sucking down ever resource
> > > I have? Whenever I run it, everything stop responding, Gnome, KDE
> > > whatever..it all waits till the song changes, then whatever I've clicked
> > > on while waiting executes....very messy. Any way to fix that and
> > > maintain good mp3 playback? Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Darryl
> > >
> > >
